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[–] [email protected] 100 points 6 days ago (6 children)

It's because parseInt is expecting a string, so the decimal gets converted to a string, and 0.0000005.toString() returns 5e-7.

[–] KindaABigDyl 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] AnotherPenguin 5 points 5 days ago

More like javascript L, even python would throw a TypeError for this example.

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